linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ibmveth: fix multiple errors with dma_mapping

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:32:53 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ibmveth: fix multiple errors with
 dma_mapping_error conversion

Hi Andrew,

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:24:14 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:14:24 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > The addition of an argument to dma_mapping_error() in commit
> > 8d8bb39b9eba32dd70e87fd5ad5c5dd4ba118e06 "dma-mapping: add the device
> > argument to dma_mapping_error()" left a bit of fallout:
> 
> Yeah, sorry, that patch was a horror - I fixed it perhaps ten times.  I
> think people were madly adding new dma_mapping_error() calls while we
> were trying to maintain it as well.
> 
> It should have been dome as a two-stage conversion.

Yes, indeed (my new favourite word :-))

I hope that we all can discuss procedures for API changes at the Kernel
Summit ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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